Close your eyes and picture that conversation with a TSA agent....
"Hi. I want to make sure it is going to be ok that I have two inert claymore mines packed in my carry on luggage."
"You have who's mind packed in your luggage?"
"No. Mines! Like bombs. Explosives! Except these do not have any explosive charges loaded in them. So they are harmless, inert."
"Inert!!!! You have bombs in your luggage and you think they are harmless!!!! SIEZE THIS WOMAN! Call the bomb squad! Take her in the back room and strip search her for whatever she inerted!"
That scenario doesn't seem to work either. The situation was hopeless. She should have shipped the parts. She's dealing with the TSA here, not the Boyscouts. :o)
“That scenario doesn’t seem to work either. The situation was hopeless.”
If I was running the x ray machine that found them; I would want her put in stocks in a public area.